Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780199274109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 643 str.

Christopher Bobonich

Opis

Plato's Utopia Recast is an illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich examines later dialogues, with a special emphasis upon the Laws, and argues that in these late works, Plato both rethinks and revises the basic ethical and political positions that he held in his better-known earlier works, such as the Republic. This book will change our understanding of Plato. His controversial moral and political theory, so influential in Western thought, will henceforth be seen in a new light.

Recenzje

One of those rare things, a really exciting work of philosophical scholarship, which has me wanting to turn every page ... one of the best things that I have read on Plato for a very long time ... a thoroughly original book, not just in terms of its thesis, but in terms of its strikingly clear approach - which allows fresh meaning to shine out.'